----- Original Message ----- From: "Rob Studdert" Subject: Re: Re: Hurrah for Shel Disrobing the Emperor
On 15 Apr 2005 at 14:52, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Strange. All my non-photographer friends who shoot occasional snaps are more
than happy with digital. My kids, who never could be bothered with film, are
happily snapping away with digital. They e-mail a lot of pics and print a few.
It works for them. Seems to work for almost everyone I know. Mini labs that are
counting on a resurgence of film are doomed. Paul
Minilabs are doomed anyway.
Print counts from digital won't keep them open, and while I am seeing a blip at the moment, I am sure that is all it is.
As much as i would like it to be otherwise
The reality here is that for the mainstream it's getting difficult to find film
let alone a film camera. Even the camera store brochures only have a half page
or a page dedicated to film cameras these days. I know we aren't quite third
world here but film has pretty much had it, there are sufficient digital print
facilities around the place that people don't need computers to make prints.
We aren't quite that bad off yet, film is still available, it just isn't being stocked in the quantities it used to be maintained at.
Even the little cheapo ink-jets have card readers with direct printing these
days and they are becoming more idiot resistant with each incarnation. Also I
hardly see a tourist with a film camera these days either, lots of them even
seem quite content to use phone cams for their holiday snaps.
Digital imaging obviously isn't mature but it isn't utter crap either, who here
has dumped their DSLR to go back to shooting 35mm film?
I'm close.....
I expect to be building my new darkroom this winter, and by a year from now, I will be back to shooting film for good.
I'll keep shooting digital for colour prints and the net, but I expect to go back to film for a lot of what I do, though it won't be 35mm.
The shine has kinda worn of the old istD
William Robb
